Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

The writing is on the wall, and it’s not in cursive. Now, however, a new chapter is being written for cursive. Several studies have shown that learning cursive makes students better learners. Writing ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...

STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...

In an age where screens dominate classrooms and workplaces, handwriting might seem like a relic of the past. But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy development. ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...

Treasure Coast lawmakers propose bills requiring elementary students to read and write cursive, reviving a skill dropped from state law in 2010.

FULLERTON, California, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn ...